The Jazz Bird (Premier Series Plus)

Holden, Craig

ISBN 10: 1585471658 ISBN 13: 9781585471652

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2002

Synopsis

Lawyer George Remus became the country's biggest bootlegger, grossing over $80 million until his arrest. Upon his release from prison, he learns that his beautiful wife, Imogene, has left him and that his bank accounts are empty. On the morning of their divorce, he runs her car off the road in the middle of rush hour in Eden Park and shoots her to death.

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Review:

After three taut, well-crafted contemporary mysteries, Craig Holden turns in The Jazz Bird to the 1920s, evoking a period rich in glamour and drama in a powerful and elegiac story told with consummate skill.

Young Charlie Taft, a prosecutor who's the son of a former president and chief justice, doesn't need to solve the murder of Imogene Remus, the quixotic and exotic wife of Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus; George has already confessed to the crime, and his conviction is all but assured. But as Charlie delves deeper into the tangled history of the stunning socialite who defied her wealthy family to marry Remus and went to extraordinary lengths to free him from prison, he begins to doubt whether the bootlegger is insane, as he claims, or the real victim of his wife's betrayal.

Holden brings a fascinating era in American history to life through the creation of complex, multidimensional characters who haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. This is a tour de force from a writer who gets better with every novel. --Jane Adams, Amazon.com

Review:

"* 'Holden knows how to create a tight, high-velocity narrative and surprising characters, successfully combining these elements with some wild, over-the-top twists and a nightmarish, Hitchcockian sense of terror' THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * 'Craig Holden writes like a dream' WASHINGTON POST * 'THE RIVER SORROW was the most exciting and human book I read last year. I would have killed to have written some of its scenes' MICHAEL ONDAATJE, author of THE ENGLISH PATIENT

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1585471658
• ISBN 13: 9781585471652
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 336